Chris England

9.7

Super smooooooth creamy silky velvet Hermitage @ £85 to £120- A shaved piggy wiggy wearing decadent silky pajamas & silk slippers 🐷

📍 Paul Jaboulet Aîné La Chapelle 2011

🏵 97 points & will improve 😉

🍷 Ruby w/ purple hue

👃 Cloves, olives, thyme & other spiced herbs, wet earth & blackberry w/ touch of liquorice, cherry, tar, dried piggy meats & cracked minerals - a full on nasal tease 🐽

👄 Med+ body incredibly super smooth rich creamy olive tapenade, chewy concentrated blackberry & dark earthy chomping thick cherry w/ dollop of liquorice silky sauce

🎯 Long dark fruit gooey gloop & dark olive pure silky velvet earthy mouth coating licking linger 😍 — 8 years ago

Scott Plambeck

8.9

Drink now. Light mineral on the palate, smooth, nice finish. Still an enjoyable nose. To open recommend using a "twist up" or two-flat-pronged opener rather than a normal cork screw. Cork was slightly spongy and moist half way. This appears typical of older French wines. Enjoyed with New York Strip, with a Gorgonzola cream sauce, as well as Grilled chicken and Bowtie pasta, with a garlic cream sauce. — 9 years ago

Anthony Lombardi

9.4

Inviting & open aromatics. Has a pronounced vanilla note which follows to the palate, but is tempered with dark, spiced plummy fruit. Grippy texture, yet loosely knit at this early stage. Beautiful stuff with a NY strip. — 9 years ago

dan boedeker

9.1

Really good with NY strip on grill. Good, representative CDP. — 10 years ago

David Kline

9.1

Mushrooms in mocha, brown rice, caramel-y citrus with Bing cherry, soy sauce, and beef ribbons tease the nose. Happy to see less candy and soda in a beer. Soy sauce, molasses, baker's chocolate, oak, cedar, and cinnamon with allspice. Great! The sour is at the end but buoys the whole. — 10 years ago

with Courtney, Madeline and 1 other

Kimberly Hase

9.0

Had with strip steak (salt, pepper, brown sugar then charcoal grilled Med Rare)--great pair. — 11 years ago

Eric Chmiel

9.0

Paul Hobbs juice. Couldn't pass it up considering Hollis is the name of one of our daughters. Paired perfectly with a NY Strip — 11 years ago

K Tuck

10

Great with Argentine wood-grilled
strip streak — 12 years ago

Stephen Stone

9.7

Wow!! Used to be a huge fan of the Prisoner....can't afford anymore...this is my new alternative!! Grilled New York Strip tonight...paired perfectly!! — 12 years ago

Rick Jordan

9.0

VINTAGE: 2004
BOTTLE: 375ml
APPEARANCE: Deep red, garnet meniscus, viscous legs.
NOSE: Allspice, white pepper, bell pepper, dark fruits.
MOUTHFEEL: Round, medium - acidity, medium + tannins.
PALATE: Cinnamon, tomato leaf, leather, hints of vanilla.
FINISH: Long with sandalwood throughout and some cocoa at the very end.
NOTES: Picked this up in December of 2017, thinking the 375 bottle will have made this ready to drink immediately. Was not wrong, it is drinking well, but there is sufficient backbone left in this wine to age for many more years to come, even in a 375. Nice layers of complexity that were fun to tease out, but still many notes that I don’t yet have the ability to properly identify. I look forward to trying again with more years under its belt. — 8 years ago

Phillip Antley

9.1

Deep berries, smooth tannins that complement my NY Strip nicely! — 9 years ago

Gary Grose

8.9

Always a quality Spanish blend, albeit with large price fluctuations. If you want to tease your dentist, drink this before you go and see them. A real teeth stainer. — 9 years ago

Mike Mayer

9.1

Ripe, silky flavors of blueberries and currants which make me smile! Not a giant fruit bomb but a great blend of core Bordeaux grapes. Paired with a sirloin strip tonight. Great evening at home with Lisa. — 10 years ago

with Lisa

Berg

9.3

Haven't had a Gonon in a while, figured I'd check in on '11. Good amount of black and blue fruit still, and an ample amount of that briney-umami-black olive flavor I love in here, and some mildly funky earth tones, that go really well with the rich earthy nuttiness of this 42 day aged NY strip (home aging by joeD). Think the last Gonon I recall opening was '13 after release last year, and it was brutally young. The '11 however is nicely settled down, smooth fine tannins, long finish, but plenty of room to mature yet. — 10 years ago

Roland Boney

9.5

The 2008 vintage has aged beautifully and I submit that it is approaching its peak potential. The dark fruit flavor coupled with mature balance on the palate makes this offering well worth an excellent rating. Sir Rolland has championed this wine as possibly the premium wine of the Long Shadows brand. Paired nicely with the house NY Strip Steak...4 Cheers!!!! — 11 years ago

with Missy

Mary Neese

9.3

Very drinkable Reisling. Not sweet and not overly crisp either. Refreshing and light. — 11 years ago

with Isaiah

Helen M Gaydos

9.4

Aromas of briars black currant, lead pencil, meaty and cedar box. Med bodied, and structure overtakes fruit but let's see with a NY Strip! — 11 years ago

with Mark

Kevin Kan

8.9

A little bit past it's prime but still has plenty fruit left. Very nice and easy drinking. Drank this bottle with a grilled NY strip steak. — 12 years ago

Ryan Feyh

9.2

With ny strip and potato. Decanted for 40 min and tasty. — 12 years ago

Jason Koh

9.6

Still vibrant, exquisite concentration of flavors, no oxidation at all yet! but the tannin has almost all melted away and the almost 3-decades of aging is bringing out wonderful tertiary accents to complement the fruit, cedar, wet asphalt and a hint of white truffle. For the money, why drink anything else with Momofuku Ko’s heavenly 6-week dry aged bone-in strip. — 9 years ago

Michael D

9.2

Beautiful rich...lush...ripe..a touch of berries on first taste ..finishes with a beautiful velvety texture. .paired wonderfully with strip loin peppercorn steak. I will say i usually reserve this meal with a cab sauv but I will say the Amarone topped them all.😚😊 — 9 years ago

Crystal Crystal

9.0

Served with coffee rubbed strip steaks — 9 years ago

Dennis Chellew

9.0

Paired with a green chili rubbed NY strip and was an amazing pair. The smokiness was a perfect compliment — 10 years ago

Rick Z

9.1

Celebrating one week since my eye surgery.....I'm alive and this wine and a Strip Steak on the grill ought to do the trick for tonight .. ..dark fruits and licorice at the open. ...very nice for this 07!. — 10 years ago

with Jeff, Mike and 3 others

Ted Miller

9.8

Auction win! Bought for my brother for Christmas. Our birth year. What an amazing wine. Having tonight with him visiting with a nice New York strip. Still has a great nose of dark fruit, good grip, good acid and I have to say a tad of tannin left. What a rockstar wine. Getting better each hour too. — 10 years ago

Michael Maggitti

9.4

Father's Day with 01 Plumpjack, strip steak and portobello mushrooms. Full body, smooth finish. Excellent! — 11 years ago

Shelli Elliott

9.3

Thick... Seriously has legs. Dark and full bodied with a rich smokiness. Definitely a wine to go with a nice New York strip! — 11 years ago

Niran Fajemisin

9.4

Complemented the medium rare New York strip we had it with. Frankly it would have been equally delicious with any soft cheese and nuts. — 12 years ago

John Kemper

9.8

I dug deep in the cellar for a special wine with our chargrilled NY strip. I opened the deep garnet-colored '94 Joseph Phelps Red Bordeaux Blend 'Insignia'. Decanted and aerated for two hours, the aromas of cedar, cassis, mocha, forest floor and eucalyptus tingled the nose. Dark fruits and minerals in the velvety mouth with long-lasting impressions of sweet, ripe and polished tannins. Lots of class and pedigree in this beauty. A most memorable meal! — 12 years ago

David Edwards

9.0

Another Food and Wine club selection. Tonight with NY Strip and loaded mashed potatoes. — 14 years ago

with Heather